RE: Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files

2005-01-07 Thread Roytman, Alex
Remy, I am aware of this property on Host and I actually use it - works great I am able to supply my own context configurator. What I would like to do is avoid rewriting significant parts of Tomcat's ContextConfig class to implement my encryption/decryption functionality. I would like to only o

Re: Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files

2005-01-07 Thread Remy Maucherat
Roytman, Alex wrote: Rémy, I do not think that adding a Context listener will do me any good. I need to plug in my own ContextConfig. I know I can plug in my own ContextConfig but I would like to extend tomcat's one with minimum of changes or I will be running risk of being incompatible with next v

RE: Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files

2005-01-06 Thread Roytman, Alex
Rémy, I do not think that adding a Context listener will do me any good. I need to plug in my own ContextConfig. I know I can plug in my own ContextConfig but I would like to extend tomcat's one with minimum of changes or I will be running risk of being incompatible with next version of tomcat

Re: Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files

2005-01-06 Thread Mark Thomas
ch able to read some bits of XML from shared repositories (e.g. LDAP)for big installs with many similar configurations) Thanks again Alex Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:46:00 -0500 From: Durfee, Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files Content-ty

Re: Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files

2005-01-06 Thread Remy Maucherat
Roytman, Alex wrote: Dear Tomcat developers, I would like to implement context config file encryption. It is a pretty useful feature since passwords to various resources are stored in those files Unfortunately the way how context config files are read is hard coded (InputSource for Digester is crea

RE: Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files

2005-01-06 Thread Roytman, Alex
ead some bits of XML from shared repositories (e.g. LDAP)for big installs with many similar configurations) Thanks again Alex Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:46:00 -0500 From: Durfee, Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files Content-type: text/pl

RE: Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files

2005-01-06 Thread Durfee, Bernard
fuscation, but I think it is a worthy feature. Bernard Durfee -Original Message- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:25 PM To: Tomcat Developers List Subject: Re: Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files Alex, I would vote '-1&

Re: Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files

2005-01-06 Thread Mark Thomas
Alex, I would vote '-1' for any such addition Tomcat. Let me explain why by way of a simple example. Let us assume that Tomcat requires a plain text user name and password to connect to a database. First of all, consider the security risks if the information is stored in an unencrypted file somew

Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files

2005-01-06 Thread Roytman, Alex
Dear Tomcat developers, I would like to implement context config file encryption. It is a pretty useful feature since passwords to various resources are stored in those files Unfortunately the way how context config files are read is hard coded (InputSource for Digester is created from FileInput